Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to partition a database are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a variant identifier to identify a variant of unstructured data included in a query. The variant identifier is to identify a size of the identified variant, the query including unstructured data to be written to a database. A partition manager is to select a partition into which data is to be written based on the size of the identified variant. A partition creator is to, in response to the selected partition not existing in the database, create the selected partition. A data writer to write the data to the selected partition.